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Evaluating 35 Years of the One-Child Policy

Now that the Chinese government has adjusted the national family planning regulations to allow families to have two children, demographers, sociologists, economists, anthropologists, and others are busy interpreting the long-term impact of the past 35 years of the one-child policy. In the New York Times, Brook Larmer looks into some of the social implications of the policy: The debate over whether the one-child policy has been essential to China’s rise, or whether that